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Contractions and Wrinkles

15 April 2024

Contractions and Wrinkles

Understanding the factors influencing myoblasts (cells from which skeletal muscle develops). In lab-grown cells, a soft substrate led to more myoblasts with a wrinkled nucleus with a reduced level of a proliferation marker, and lower contractility – a relationship with potential for therapeutic manipulation

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Written by Lindsey Goff

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